I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 21 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Neville – the extension to Pallaskenry national school, County Limerick; (2) Deputy Upton – the urgent need for the Minister for Education and Science to address the shortfall in services for children with special needs; (3) Deputy Broughan – the urgent need to publish the inspector's report on the special amenity area order for Howth and to confirm the Howth special amenity area order; (4) Deputy Finucane – the need to provide funding to Limerick County Council for the replacement of the roofs on 43 houses at Clenma Estate in Croom, County Limerick; (5) Deputy Fitzgerald – the urgent need to review driving test procedures in this country; (6) Deputy Perry – the urgent need for the immediate appointment of a teacher in Achonry national school, County Sligo, due to the phenomenal increase in the numbers in the school catchment area; (7) Deputy Farrelly – the situation in relation to an appeal against a 10% REP scheme penalty in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; (8) Deputy McGinley – the urgent need to complete reconstruction works on Portnablagh Pier, County Donegal; (9) Deputy Bradford – the need for the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development to initiate and pursue policies which will encourage young people to take up a career in farming; (10) Deputy Gay Mitchell – the delays of up to three years in having the occupational therapy unit of the Eastern Regional Health Authority assess the needs of disabled and elderly people; (11) Deputy Stanton – the need to enable the Blood Transfusion Service Board in Cork to carry out autologous transfusions; (12) Deputy Theresa Ahearn – the urgency for additional staff to reduce the present two to three year waiting period for assessment for potential adoptive parents in south Tipperary; (13) Deputy Howlin – the urgent need for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to outline the steps he intends to take in light of the upsurge in gangland and drug related murders in Dublin city; (14) Deputy O'Sullivan – the need for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to produce an audit of the 12 promises which the Irish Government signed up to during the Fourth UN World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995; (15) Deputy Jim Higgins – the brutal weekend gangland killing in Ballymun, which brings to six the number of gangland killings in Dublin since the beginning of the year and to 18 the number of unsolved gangland killings in Dublin in the past 20 months; (16) Deputy Breeda Moynihan-Cronin – the circumstances whereby a grant was reissued to a private concern in relation to the Caragh river despite the fact that guarantees given by his predecessor were not fulfilled to the satisfaction of the local community; (17) Deputy Browne (Carlow-Kilkenny)– the purchase by the Office of Public Works of a building in Myshall, County Carlow, while the Irish Autism Society was involved in the purchase of same.
The matters raised by Deputies Farrelly, Browne (Carlow-Kilkenny), Fitzgerald and O'Sullivan have been selected for discussion.